Linda Haines Associates



The Second Half Shift
Are you where you want to be?
Mid-Life Career Check-Up
Mid-life circumstances often prompt executives to conduct a re-evaluation of personal, business and family priorities that impact career status and/or direction. A variety of articles and data show that increasing numbers of executives are making mid-life career transitions, in some cases voluntarily, in others involuntarily. In a Business Week magazine special report, “How to Reinvent Yourself Post-Recession,” author Bob Buford states that “hard times have driven many to pause, take stock, and chart a new course for the second half of life.” Beyond current global economic conditions, many of today’s Baby Boomer executives are dealing with a whole host of new and different circumstances that affect their career direction decisions. Among the more common circumstances are: • Changing financial circumstances: lower income or factoring in a longer expected lifespan • Age discrimination in the workplace • Need to master new skills such as changing computer technologies and social networking applications • Careers disappearing or being outsourced • Changing priorities regarding how to spend time: caring for aging parents, visiting grandchildren,traveling, volunteering • Health issues • Defining retirement: different work, part-time work

New Beginnings
A successful career transition takes hard work. It requires that you take a thorough inventory of your skills and abilities, along with an honest look at what you want. Linda Haines Associates helps guide you through a process of discovery, definition and direction that will enable you to: • Gain greater clarity around your values, wants and needs • Articulate exactly what you are seeking in your new career • Define areas of focus in order to be successful • Communicate to prospective employers your unique qualities and how they are relevant to the employers’ needs

A Hands-On Approach

We work with you “hands-on” to guide you every step of the way. • Gather data and administer assessments: values, likes/dislikes, priorities and standard assessment tools like Myers-Briggs, Hogan • Create the Possibilities and Direction tool: outlines key points you want prospective employers to know, and what you want in a new career; helps establish direction • Create network for gathering input on the Possibilities and Directions tool: casting a wide net, then beginning to narrow the scope of possibilities and choices • Refine a clear direction • Create an action plan Read our brochure: A New Look at Work for the Second Half

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Linda Haines Associates 3818 Spicewood Springs Rd. Suite 300 Austin, TX 78759 // Phone: 512.345.8882 // Fax: 512.345.8150